Coin-deposit bank.



H. J. VALENTINE.

COIN DEPOSIT BANK.

(Application filed Aug. 29, 1901.)

No. 695,845. Patented Mar. 18, 1902.

(No Model.)

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HARRY J. VALENTINE, OF HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO WVILLIAM VOGEL & BROTHERS, OF BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, N. Y., A FIRM.

COlN-DEPOSIT BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part 01" Letters Patent NO. 695,845, dated March 18, 1902. Application filed August 29, 1901. Serial No. 73,754. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: piece of metal, so that a back, two sides, and Be it known that I, HARRY J. VALENTINE, two ends are provided, one of which has a acitizen of the United States of America, and coin-slot a. A rabbet groove or recess b is a resident of Hempstead, in the county of provided at the edge of the open portion of 5 Nassau and State of New York, have inventthe box-body by means of a strip of metal 13, ed certain new and useful Improvements in which is riveted or brazed onto the inner Coin-Deposit Banks, of which the following surface of the side walls of the box-body in is a specification. such position that its outer edge protrudes to Thisinvention relates to coin-deposit-banks, form a rim, onto which the flange C of a to such as are used by savings-banks, they becover 0 fits snugly and preferably with some ing given to the depositors for the accumudegree of friction to produceacomparatively lation of coins intended for deposit in the tight fit. The stock of the cover is the same bank, the depositor taking the receptacle to thickness, preferably, as that of the box-body the bank when the same has received a con- A,with the result that its flange O fits exactly I5 siderable number of coins, and the receivinginto the rabbetgroove b, and aflush surface at teller of the bank, who alone retains the key, the outside of the joint is produced. This, opening the receptacle, so as to ascertain the with the fact that the corners of the box-body amount of money to be credited to the deandcoverareall rounded off,enablesahighlypositor, and then returning the receptacle to polished and smooth exterior to be produced,

20 the depositorfor further coin accumulations. which is impossible in the usual coin-recep- The objects of the invention are mainly to tacle of this class in which there is a door provide a coin-deposit receptacle which is rehinged or mounted in an opening of less size liable,in that the coins cannot be withdrawn than the area of one side of the box, espeimproperly, and which is durable, simple, and cially in view of the projections furnished by 25 highly ornamental. the hinges. Besides, there are other objec- Another object is to provideadevice of the tions. When the cover is on, the receptacle described character which has no objectionmay be locked by means of the bolt 01 of a able sharp corners or protruding edges, so suitable lock D, which engages underatransthat it is not rough and cannot cut or injure verse bar E, suitably fixed in the open por- 30 the hands. tion of the box-body. The lock is located at To these ends the invention consists of cerone end of the cover, so that the bolt will be tain features of construction and combinaprojected at about the middle thereof and entions of parts, to be hereinafter described in gaged under the transverse bar E, which is detailfand then claimed. located near the middleof the open portion 35 In the accompanying drawings, forming a of the box-body. Said barEis provided with part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perint-urned ends 6, which are riveted or brazed spective view of the improved coin-deposit to the sides of the boX-bodyand over the inreceptacle. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2, ner surface of the strip Bin such manner as Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation with the to position the transverse bar rather out from 40 cover removed to show the interior of the rethe plane of the edge of the strip. ceptacle; and Fig. l is a section on line at 4, A trap device is provided to prevent a coin Fig. 3, the cover being left 0% also. from being removed through the coin-slot af- The receptacle as shown is formed so that ter it has once been dropped into the recep= it may stand with its greatest dimension vertacle. This device consists of a chute F, hav- 45 tical; but the invention is not limited to this ing parallel side flangesj and side ears f, disposition of dimensions, as it is evident which ears are riveted or brazed to the inner that its greatest dimension may be horizonsurface of the side having the coin-slot, the tal. The upright form is preferred, and the connection being made at opposite ends of invention will be so described. the slot and the chute being in the present in- ;0 A box-body A is stamped up out of one stance parallel with the greatest dimension 10o of the receptacle, or, in other words, the chute is fixed at right angles to its supporting side. The flat back of the chute is in line with one of the sides of the coin-slot. By having the fixed chute at right angles to that side of the bank which is provided with the slot a coin will, if it should by any means get in the trap, drop immediately out of it upon any movement of the trap into a slanting or vertical position. This would not be the result if the trap were at any other angle to the side, because a pocket would be formed when the trap would be in certain positions and the coin could be held therein. A guard-plate G is pivoted between the side flanges f of the chute, it being provided with side flanges 9, through which, near the mid-length of the guard-plate, a pivot-pin g, which is mounted in the side flanges of the chute, passes. The guard-plate is perfectly bent at a point opposite the pivot-pin, so that its ends will be out of one plane, and it is of the same general area as the back of the chute, so that its inner edge will fall opposite the inner edge of the chute. The upper end of the guard-plate is provided with an inwardly extending flange, the edge of which lies in a line with the adjacent side of the coin-slot when the bank is in its normal position; but when the bank is tilted the edge engages with the inner wall of the fixed chute, limiting the inward movement of the guard and preventing a coin passing out of the slot from either side of the guard-plate.

With a trap device arranged and constructed as described it is practically impossible to shake out or extract a coin once inserted into the receptacle. It can readily be removed by unlocking the cover. I

A handle H is pivoted to lugs 71, located on the box-body at opposite endsof the coin-slot, whereby the receptacle can readily be carried in the hand.

WVhat I claim as my invention is l. A coin-bank comprising a detached cover member and a box-body member, a lockingbolt carried by one of said members, a device positioned centrally in the open side and within the other member, to be engaged by the locking-bolt and means preventing relative lateral movement between the parts.

2. In a coin-bank, the combination of a detached box-body, a cover, each having the same exterior area and having an interfitting connection, a bar secured at the middle of opposite sides of one of them, across the open part thereof, and a locking device carried by the other and adapted to engage with said bar; whereby the lock is made effective at or near the center of the receptacle.

3. A pocket-bank comprising a receptacle constructed of a body portion and a separable cover jointed thereto by a rabbet joint, a lock secured at an intermediate point within the cover, and a bar adapted to be engaged by the bolt of the lock, connecting the inner sides of the body portion at opposite intermediate points; whereby the bolt is made effective at or near the center of the receptacle.

4. A coin-bank having a coin-slot, a chute leading from said slot and having a fixed wall in alinement with one of the walls of the coinslot, a pivoted guard-plate forming a back for the chute, and its lower end closing the lower end of the chute when in normal position, and a flange integral with the upper end of the guard-plate and extending into the coin-chute to limit the movement of the guardplate toward the fixed wall of the coin-chute.

Signed at Brooklyn, New York, this 27th day of August, 1901.

HARRY J. VALENTINE.

Witnesses:

G. H. Vooams, S. NELsoN LYoNs. 

